Falling into the fire a psychiatrist's encounters with the mind in crisis

Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross's thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients she treats here are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of...

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Main Author: Montross, Christine
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2013.
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245 1 0 |a Falling into the fire :  |b a psychiatrist's encounters with the mind in crisis /  |c Christine Montross. 
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300 |a 239 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index. 
520 |a Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross's thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients she treats here are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. Each case study presents its own line of inquiry, leading her to seek relevant psychiatric knowledge from diverse sources. A doctor of uncommon curiosity and compassion, Montross discovers lessons in medieval dancing plagues, in leading forensic and neurological research, and in moments from her own life. Throughout, she confronts the larger question of psychiatry: What is to be done when a patient's experiences cannot be accounted for, or helped, by what contemporary medicine knows about the brain? When all else fails, she finds, what remains is the capacity to abide, to sit with the desperate in their darkest moments. At once rigorous and meditative, Falling Into the Fire is an intimate portrait of psychiatry, allowing the reader to witness the humanity of the practice and the enduring mysteries of the mind.--From publisher description. 
505 0 |a The woman who needed a zipper -- Fifty-thousand-dollar skin -- Your drugs take away the love -- I've hidden all the knives -- Dancing plagues and double impostors -- Epilogue : into the fire, into the water. 
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